Home Video: Releases look familiar

9:01 AM,
Jun. 11, 2014

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Chris Pine in 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,' an action thriller about a young covert CIA analyst who uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Larry Horricks)

Written by

Todd Hill
CentralOhio.com

Even if you haven't seen the two top movies arriving this week on home video, you can easily be forgiven for thinking you have. Hollywood is big on imitation these days. Meanwhile, the golden age of television continues, with one of the best-reviewed series of the year debuting on DVD and Blu-ray.New movies

"Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit." It's hard to find anything substantively negative to say about this attempted reboot of the Tom Clancy-inspired super-spy film franchise, which dates to 1990. Chris Pine does a solid as the title character, while Kevin Kline, Keira Knightley and Kenneth ...